Is it just me or is his Ben Affleck persona more interesting than any of the characters he winds up playing onscreen?

I know he gets a fair bit of shit, but in all the interviews, commentaries, and other candid media I've seen/heard of him he's got that whole Vince Vaughn'esque Likeable Grinning Asshole (tm) aire to him, whereas in most movies he plays Likeable Piece Of Cardboard (tm) (Goodwill Hunting being an exception off the top of my head). It don't seem logical.

If John Woo let Affleck run adlibs throughout PAYCHECK it could have pulled 400 million at the boxoffice!

Something for all of us to think about, I think.

Fact: Putting this man on "Whose Line Is It Anyway"will send ratings through the roof

shit too late, coming 2008 Ben Affleck as...IRON MAN
featuring a completely different story with nearly no relation to the Iron Man the world loves and a total redesign of the classic vissage of Iron Man!

i have watched daredevil 20 times.
i dont know why.
each time i say that is the last time i will go back to that piece of shit film, but it appears that i cannot.
have you heard the directors commentry on daredevil, it's the bomb!
affleck, ive liked him in films like good will hunting, should of never of been in daredevil though.

He's not so bad. Not at all. I really liked Chasing Amy and I thought he was really good in that. I think he's a solid actor that happens to be easy to rail on. Everyone points him out as a negative when it really isn't.

He's alright. He was fairly decent in "Changing Lanes" with Samuel L. Jackson. Now Samuel L, that's an actor I'd go see at the box office - Ben most likely not. I just find his acting so so and he just always appears bland on the big screen.

slumber party69 wrote:Once, it seemed the world was at his feet. He and his best friend Matt Damon wrote and starred in Good Will Hunting. Their reward was a Best Screenplay Oscar and a passport to an A-list acting career in Hollywood.

Damon's reputation took off, but Affleck had a knack of picking dud flicks; Pearl Harbor, Armageddon and Daredevil are on his CV.

But the real opprobrium began when the actor started dating Jennifer Lopez, and people chose to forget that Affleck had shown his acting qualities in several films by Kevin Smith, Shakespeare in Love and Richard Linklater's teen classic Dazed and Confused.

The adventures of "Bennifer" were a staple in the media.

The couple even insisted on acting together - the resulting film, Gigli, was panned and quickly gained a reputation as one of the worst films in history.

When their relationship hit the rocks, Smith even thought it prudent to cut scenes of the couple getting married from his ill-received comedy Jersey Girl.

It seemed that everything Affleck touched turned into box-office poison.

But i like to think he has bounce back thanks to gone baby gone?.

Tyrone_Shoelaces wrote:I've forgiven Affleck for everything.

Everything but the stealing Jennifer Garner from me thing.

RogueScribner wrote:Affleck just didn't know when to say no. Damon had better luck choosing his projects, going for quality over quantity ($$$) and eventually that parlayed into him having a booming career. Affleck can get back on top, but I think he's over the whole star thing.

shit too late, coming 2008 Ben Affleck as...IRON MANfeaturing a completely different story with nearly no relation to the Iron Man the world loves and a total redesign of the classic vissage of Iron Man!

shit too late, coming 2008 Ben Affleck as...IRON MANfeaturing a completely different story with nearly no relation to the Iron Man the world loves and a total redesign of the classic vissage of Iron Man!

For quite a while Ben Affleck was emitting high energy waves in the smug bastard frequency range.

He seemed to be in lots of high budget, low quality films but failed to balance things out with some appearances in films with a stronger integrity....so people got sick of him.

I mean Matt Damon was able to a Farrelly Brother flick, a Eurotrip cameo, three dire Ocean movies and still came out unscathed. Because he maintained a balance in the movie force - Brother Grimm, Syriana, Bourne, Good Shepherd, The Departed etc etc.

Afflect almost got there with Hollywoodland, except it seems hardly anyone saw it.

I think Affleck is best at light comedy and light drama. Certainly not a heavy hitter in either genre. Personally he seems like an ass, but as others have said, when he's pushed into a serious discussion his smarts and sophistication show.

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DennisMM wrote:I think Affleck is best at light comedy and light drama. Certainly not a heavy hitter in either genre.

I agree. I read a review of Daredevil once (I forget who the reviewer was) and it said (I'm paraphrasing): "Daredevil is supposed to be a character who seethes with inner torment, and there isn't an actor in Hollywood who seethes with inner torment less than Ben Affleck."

I think that's on the money. The guy comes across as someone who doesn't have much going on emotionally in real life, so he's got very little to draw on in his performances.

DennisMM wrote:I think Affleck is best at light comedy and light drama. Certainly not a heavy hitter in either genre.

I agree. I read a review of Daredevil once (I forget who the reviewer was) and it said (I'm paraphrasing): "Daredevil is supposed to be a character who seethes with inner torment, and there isn't an actor in Hollywood who seethes with inner torment less than Ben Affleck."

I think that's on the money. The guy comes across as someone who doesn't have much going on emotionally in real life, so he's got very little to draw on in his performances.

see, this is a great example of perspective, because i strongly disagree there. i think he comes across very real and genuine.

plus, as someone who owns the Frank Miller run of DD i think that review you read was written by someone who probably hadn't read them......